Your sentence structure is ambiguous. Does the "they" in "where are they located" refer to RPMs or programs?
If "they" refers to RPMs, they don't have to reside anywhere. The application files are placed where they need to be and entries are made in the RPM database. But the RPMs themselves could very well be on a CDROM disk that isn't even mounted on the system.
If "they" referes to programs, then they are where they need to be, according to the installation conventions of that program.
Depends on where the creator of the rpm decided it needed to go.
I'd start by looking in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin. If it's a daemon, I might also look in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ to see if there is a startup/shutdown script for the daemon.
If you know the application/program name.
You can use :
# whereis mysql (from (/) main directory)
That will show the application/program name location.
Good luck....
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